Note: This piece was submitted by guest author Stephen Crockett, host of Democratic Talk Radio. Corporate Media pundits and sell-out Democratic personalities are denouncing a return to the Fairness Doctrine standards in broadcasting eliminated by the Reagan Administration. They are falling into a trap set by the Republican Right and the largest corporations in America. Essentially, they are letti...

Note: This piece was submitted by guest author Stephen Crockett, host of Democratic Talk Radio. The sudden rise of Fred Thompson as a leading Republican candidate for President shows that the Republican leadership still does not understand their impending implosion as a national political party. Thompson is a “sex-up” version of a failed product. With Thompson, voters are getting th...

note: This was written by Stephen Crockett, co-host of Democratic Talk Radio. It is published here with permission of the author. Hanging Bush’s Iraq War Critics Published reports have recently noted comments by Republican Congressman Don Young (where he misquotes President Lincoln) that seem to urge that members of Congress who criticize the Iraq War should be “hanged.” The...

note: This was written by Stephen Crockett, co-host of Democratic Talk Radio. It is published here with permission of the author. From The Top A Smell Of Corruption Even Republican partisans cannot miss the overpowering rank smell of corruption that seems to be coming from the Bush White House and the upper ranks of the national Republican leadership. It is little wonder that fewer and fewer ...

note: This was written by Stephen Crockett, co-host of Democratic Talk Radio. It is published here with permission of the author. The nation is deeply divided along Party lines over Bush’s Iraq War policy. Republicans seem to largely support Bush and Cheney on the issue. Independents, third Party supporters and Democrats are overwhelmingly opposed. My suggestion is that only Republicans...

note: This was written by Stephen Crockett, co-host of Democratic Talk Radio. It is published here with permission of the author. I am also a member of NWU, UAW Local 1981. Until I joined NWU, I was the first person in four generations — great grandfather, grandfather, father, me — to not be a member of the UAW. The benefits of unionization are frequent subjects for many...

note: This was written by Stephen Crockett, co-host of Democratic Talk Radio. It is published here with permission of the author. Trade policies are finally starting to get serious consideration in Congress, and among Presidential candidates, for the first time since the 1993 NAFTA (North American Free Trade Agreement) debates. Trade policy, by our federal government in the past 14 years, ...

note: This was written by Stephen Crockett, co-host of Democratic Talk Radio. It is published here with permission of the author. There is nothing as corrupt as using the governmental powers of law enforcement, to selectively prosecute your political enemies and to cover-up criminal behavior by your political organization and allies, while in a position of political power. This situation is t...